Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...males of the Royal Family are among the most appreciative voluntary patrons of London slapstick vaudeville, but now that George VI has assumed the throne, many loyal subjects find it slightly improper to think that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though she really enjoys...
...usual, the B. B. C. was putting its official glaze over the facts, for everyone at the London Palladium saw and heard King George roaring and Queen Elizabeth laughing till the tears came at the way Cicely Courtneidge burlesqued a "larky spinster," at Gracie Fields scratching herself as an itching mill girl and at Jack La Vier hopelessly entangling himself in a trapeze after he had announced, "Now I'll show you just how far insanity has advanced...
Famed British off-color-storyteller, Max Miller, got the only laugh in which Their Majesties could not very well join. Unlike the rest of the audience, King George and Queen Elizabeth apparently did not know the end of the extremely old and questionable anecdote which Mr. Miller began to tell, then brought down the breathless house by glancing at the Royal Box and breaking off "No, no! I can't tell this one tonight!" Instead Max told the one about the girl who said to him "Aren't you ugly...
Reported the London Dally Mail next morning, "The difficulty of including mimics [in the program of a Command Performance], which existed during the lifetime of King George V., did not arise last night. The present King and Queen have seen sufficient films and plays to appreciate fully, as they obviously did, Miss Florence Desmond's keenly-detailed and effective burlesques of Dietrich, Garbo, Dorothy Dickson-and especially good, Jessie Matthews...
Prince Ludwig, 29, youngest son of the late Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Dowager Duchess Eleanore, impatiently paced the roof at London's Croydon Aerodrome waiting for the arrival of his family from Germany. Grand Duke George, 31, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; his 26-year-old wife, the former Princess Cecile of Greece & Denmark and cousin of England's Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince Ludwig, 6, Prince Alexander, 4, and the 66-year-old Dowager Duchess were all flying to London for the wedding of Prince Ludwig, social attaché in the German Embassy...